Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : gzip (SSA:2006-262-01)

New gzip packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix possible security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2006-262-01. The...

Slackware 10.2 / current : x11 (SSA:2006-259-01)

New x11 X.Org packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and -current to fix security issues due to overflows in font parsing. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2006-259-01. T...

Apple QuickTime Plug-In Arbitrary Script Execution Weakness

Description Apple QuickTime plug-in is prone to an arbitrary-script-execution weakness when executing QuickTime Media Link files .qtl. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the affected application and load local content in a user's browser. Althoug...

[slackware-security] gzip

New gzip packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix possible security issues. More details about the issues fixed may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2005-0758...

[slackware-security] x11

New x11 X.Org packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and -current to fix security issues due to overflows in font parsing. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-3739...

[slackware-security] firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey

New Firefox and Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, a new Seamonkey package is available for Slackware -current to fix similar issues. More details about the issues may be found here:...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : openssl (SSA:2006-257-02)

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a signature forgery security issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory...

Slackware 10.2 / current : firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey (SSA:2006-257-03)

New Firefox and Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, a new SeaMonkey package is available for Slackware -current to fix similar issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks i...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a signature forgery security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2006-433...

[slackware-security] bind DoS

New bind packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a Denial of Service issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-4095 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-4096...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : libtiff (SSA:2006-230-01)

New libtiff packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues. These issues could be used to crash programs linked to libtiff or possibly to execute code as the program's user. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy and the Google Security Team. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Slackware 10.2 / current : php (SSA:2006-230-02)

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security and other issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2006-230-02. The text itself is copyright C...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security and other issues. More details about these issues may be found on the PHP website: http://www.php.net Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-4.4.4-i486-1slack10.2.tgz: Upgraded to...

[slackware-security] libtiff

New libtiff packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues. These issues could be used to crash programs linked to libtiff or possibly to execute code as the program's user. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy and the Google Security Team. More details...

Slackware 10.2 / current : php (SSA:2006-217-01)

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security and other issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2006-217-01. The text itself is copyright C...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security and other issues. More details about these issues may be found on the PHP website: http://www.php.net Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-4.4.3-i486-1slack10.2.tgz: Upgraded to...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : gnupg (SSA:2006-215-01)

New GnuPG packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues which could allow an attacker to crash gnupg and possibly overwrite memory which could lead to an integer overflow. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : Apache httpd (SSA:2006-209-01)

New Apache packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue with modrewrite. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory...

[slackware-security] gnupg

New GnuPG packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues which could allow an attacker to crash gnupg and possibly overwrite memory which could lead to an integer overflow. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] mysql

New mysql packages are available for Slackware 10.2 to fix security issues and other bugs. For complete details about the many fixes addressed by this release, you can find MySQL's news article about the MySQL 4.1.21 Community Edition release here:...